1I love Varisidius Nepos most dearly, a man who is hard-working, upright and eloquent, which with me counts for most of all. 1He is also bound by close kinship to Gaius Calvisius, my comrade and your friend; 1for he is his sister's son. 2I ask you to make him more distinguished, both for his own sake and for his uncle's, with a six-month tribunate. 2You will oblige me, you will oblige our friend Calvisius, you will oblige the man himself, a debtor no less fit to be trusted than you think us. 3You have conferred many favours on many people: I would dare to maintain that you have placed none better, and only one or two as well.
3Farewell.